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Intel's Special Driver For Poulsbo Uses Gallium3D

11-02-2009, 08:20 AM

Phoronix: Intel's Special Driver For Poulsbo Uses Gallium3D

Yesterday afternoon we ran a story on a new Linux driver for the Intel Poulsbo chipset, which right now is known for being notorious with its troubling Linux support. However, Intel apparently had been working on a new "special driver" that the Linux Foundation was showing off recently in Munich at a mobile development camp...

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The new DRM code, which the developers will be working on merging upstream soon (after a failed attempt with their older code),

I just hope it will not be accepted ... VIA tried the same and it wasn't accepted or was it in the end ?

Anyway a year ago I said somewhere on those forums that intel is the number one as far as open drivers go and AMD/ATI is second (and nvidia non existant ) Right now though AMD/ATI is IMHO the number one. The poulsbo mess moves intel to a second place.

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Agreed. There's no reason a debug version of mesa couldn't be used to create an open-source version of this driver, and Intel very well knows this... but as you said, mum's the word. Except that it's already been posted publicly...

On the other hand, I'm really glad to see usable 3D acceleration, and in addition to video acceleration, for PowerVR chips in Linux. I could definitely see a future use for a mini-ITX atom/arm + powervr board as a mythtv front end, especially if there's full video decode acceleration. The power use should be fantastic, and it might still have enough performance for NES/SNES emulation (dare I hope for N64?).